Augustine Lonergan

Augustine Lonergan (20 May 1874-18 October 1947) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CN 1) from 4 March 1913 to 4 March 1915 (succeeding E. Stevens Henry and preceding P. Davis Oakey), from 4 March 1917 to 4 March 1921 (succeeding Oakey and preceding E. Hart Fenn), and from 4 March 1931 to 4 March 1933 (succeeding Fenn and preceding Hermann P. Kopplemann), and a US Senator from Connecticut from 4 March 1933 to 3 January 1939 (succeeding Hiram Bingham III and preceding John A. Danaher.

Biography
Augustine Lonergan was born in Thompson, Connecticut in 1874, and he became a lawyer in 1902. He was a member of Hartford's Urban Planning Commission from 1910 to 1912, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1913 to 1915, from 1917 to 1921, and from 1931 to 1933, as well as in the US Senate from 1933 to 1939. He remained in Washington DC as a lawyer even after his congressional career ended, and he died in Hartford in 1947.